ORANGE SANDALWOOD

ORANGE SANDALWOOD

4/07/2012

BEATRIZ

Beatriz - O Grande Circo Místico (Chico Buarque/Edu Lobo)

A sound, on the piano... Firstly it sounds like yet
another sentimental song. But then Milton's voice... He enters the room, and
suddenly everything is his voice, even us. And there is no
room for anything else, and this means that everything else fits on the space
of his voice and his expression. All shifts to the outside, the unending, super-human
breathing, the mystical tune that goes up and down, expanding as it goes, like a
noble bird reaching majestic heights.

Could it be that the composer Chico Buarque did not
make the connection? Could this ever happen without some conscious control?

No, I
am sure he thought "I will write a musical line that looks and feels like Beatriz's
body flying on the circus". Yes, she goes up and down too, propelling
herself like a rocket with her own weight,and then landing graciously on the hands of some
friendly catcher. Both melody and trapezist playing with gravity, courting
death with a smile, being a celestial body that materializes the idea that angels
really exist.

Se ela dança no sétimo céu...

And someone watching the show down below sees the
angel within Beatriz. He is so bewitched that when he sings, his music mirrors
the flying of his angel. How can she be so celestial? What
is it her real nature...?